cynicalkoolaid

In case anyone is wondering, I completed Nanowrimo successfully. Nearly killed myself in the process as my brain literally hurt by month's end. The terrible case of food poisoning on the 29th and 30th didn't help much either.

Anyone, been dealing with car problems since then. I made the mistake of going to a local car shop by the name of Albert Auto (on Mt. Vernon Road in Cedar Rapids, IA). Paid over $500 for repairs that did nothing to fix the problem I came in for. I've been fighting with them now for the last two weeks over this shit. So now my wife and I pretty much had to empty out the savings (and get an incredibly generous gift from my wife's boss) to put a down payment on a 2005 Stratus. At least we have locomotion... even if we don't have any money for holiday gifts. Things are tight, and are only going to get tighter when the baby comes in February. But we're tightening up the old pocket book for the next couple months. At least we have solid job security right now.

Anyone feeling amazingly generous, my wishlist has been updated with presents for my family. In the mean time, I'll be using the gift card given by my job to hook up some presents for the loved one. I'm not going to let all this suckiness ruin the holiday for us all.

Thanks to anyone reading this sob story of mine. It feels good just to vent it on the page. Hopefully I'll be back sooner than before with another blog post, and hopefully it will be a much less depressing update.

9./62.